200 Hour Certification Program

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Whether you are interested in deepening your understanding of yoga or your personal practice, or you wish to become a yoga teacher, Vidya YTT will provide a complete overview that will meet your needs.

This teacher training meets all Yoga Alliance requirements with a well balanced curriculum covering yoga asana, yoga philosophy, anatomy, and more. 

Download your application HERE – Vidya Application

Training Curriculum:

• Develop a deeper awareness of Self and others, and of the connection and purpose of all beings & nature

• Learn classic asanas and Sanskrit names for the poses

• Raja Yoga (study of yoga philosophy using Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, history of yoga, and related texts)

• Study and practice appropriate sequencing for multiple levels of yoga practice

• Study Structural and Subtle Anatomy and Physiology

• Learn poses, modifications, and contraindications that will help you meet students specific needs.

• Learn appropriate hands-on adjustments, assists, and verbal cues

• Become a skilled and confident teacher and find your own voice and style

• Practice and learn Pranayama (breathing practices) and Meditation techniques in the Yoga Tradition

• Understand the “business” of yoga: career opportunities, how to operate your own studio, organize workshops, and what it means to register with the Yoga Alliance, obligations to maintain certification, etc.

Required Texts:

* Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques (Mark Stephens)

* The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)

* The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice (Deborah Adele)

* The Key Muscles of Yoga (Ray Long)

* How to know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (Swami Prabhavananda & Christopher Isherwood)

* Bhagavad Gita: The Beloved Lord’s Secret Love Song (Graham M. Schweig)

* Science of Yoga: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Perfect Your Practice (Ann Swanson)

Optional recommended Texts

* The Key Poses of Yoga (Ray Long)

* Light on the Yoga Sutras (B.K.S Iyengar)

* Light on Yoga (B.K.S Iyengar)

* The Secret Power or Yoga (Nischala Joy Devi)

* Yoga Sequencing: Designing Transformative Yoga Classes (Mark Stephens)

Melissa Scagliarini, E-RYT 500 is the owner of Satya Yoga Studio.  Melissa is a veteran instructor with over 10 years of teaching experience, including an in-depth 500-hr. training with the Himalayan Institute in India during the winter of 2010.   Melissa is well-known in the Lakes Region for her dynamic Vinyasa Flow classes which combine sequences to build strength and physical awareness with a focus on breath and overall well being.

Melissa’s warm, good natured personality paired with her challenging Ashtanga- inspired yoga classes are bound to leave you feeling grounded, energized, and well cared for in your practice.

Roseann Latona (Rosie), E-RYT 500 opened White Swan Yoga in 2010. She is an experienced, caring instructor who has been teaching yoga for over 19 years. A yoga practitioner for more than 26 years, Rosie enjoys teaching people of all ages who are at various levels in their yoga practice. Her true love is in offering gentle yoga and meditation, and in helping people to move their body in a mindful, easeful manner, one that feels natural but has perhaps been lost to them due to injury, surgery, trauma, or the aging process. She received her 500 hour certification from the well-established Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, PA. Rosie also completed level I Thai Yoga training and is a Certified Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist. She takes great pleasure in helping her students experience the inner peace and joy that yoga has to offer and her ongoing study of various yoga styles inspires both her practice and her teaching.

Outside of the studio, Rosie enjoys sharing the practice of yoga with those that might not otherwise be exposed to it, including high-school and college students on campus, women at local shelters, and nursing home residents.

Melissa and Rosie are members of Yoga Alliance www.yogaalliance.org

Please contact us with questions or to receive more information: 

Rosie- whiteswanyoga@comcast.net; 603-626-9642

Melissa- satyayogastudionh@gmail.com; 603-677-2934

VIDYA YOGA is registered with the Yoga Alliance (RYS).

This teacher training meets all Yoga Alliance requirements with a well balanced curriculum covering the physical aspects of yoga as well as philosophy and anatomy.